Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-227) and index

Speaking for : surrogates and the Tale of the Genji / H. Richard Okada -- Re-visioning the widow Christine de Pizan / Barbara Stevenson -- On becoming ukifune : autobiographical heroines in Heian and Kamakura literature / Joshua S. Mostow -- Vox matris : the influence of St. Birgitta's Revelations on The book of Margery Kempe / Nanda Hopenwasser and Signe Wegener -- The voice of the court woman poet / S. Lea Millay -- Romantic entreaty in The Kagerō diary and The letters of Abelard and Heloise / John R. Wallace -- Words alone cannot express : epistles in Marie de France and Murasaki Shikubu / Cynthia Ho -- "True lovers" : love and irony in Murasaki Shikubu and Christine de Pizan / Carol E. Harding -- Reclaiming the self through silence : The Riverside Counselor's stories and the Lais of Marie de France / Marco D. Roman -- The lady in the garden : subjects and objects in an ideal world / Mara Miller

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